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BUSINESSWEEK: Opioid Avenger: The Lawyer Who Beat Big Tobacco Takes on the Opioid Industry, Oct. 5, 2017As Mississippi’s attorney general, Mike Moore pioneered an untested and widely derided legal strategy in 1994 to sue tobacco companies for lying about nicotine addiction and hold them accountable for sick smokers’ health-care costs. But as he’s watched the tobacco victory pay off in declining smoking rates, easy access to powerful pain medication has sparked a new deadly crisis. He’s convinced this is the moment to work the same mechanisms on drug companies that forced the tobacco industry to heel — and he’s committed himself to making that happen.“Litigation is a blunt instrument; it’s not a surgical tool,” Moore says. “But it provokes interest quicker than anything I’ve ever seen.”

Taking the Pulse of Trump’s Heartland Voters, May 17, 2017
In the aftermath of November’s election, there was the sense in many East Coast circles that it wouldn’t take long for the voters of Middle America to regret their decision to put Donald Trump in the White House. We’ve found few signs of such remorse.

BUSINESSWEEK: This Robotic Baby Might Need Changing, Dec. 22, 2016Infant simulators have become a staple of American education, reaching more than 6 million students at 17,000 schools (and used in 91 countries around the world). But a recent study in a prominent medical journal adds to a growing body of research raising serious doubts about their effectiveness in curbing teenage pregnancy. Here’s what happened next as their manufacturer launched accusations of junk science to protect its bottom line.

BUS TO NOVEMBER, August 2016“Any questions? Alright, we gonna get outta here,” the bus driver shouted in one breath before pulling out of downtown Philadelphia’s Greyhound station. Yeah, we have questions. How has your life changed since 2008? What events have shaped you and led you to board this bus today? Does it feel like today’s economy is broken for the working poor or middle class, the people who go by bus instead of planes or cars? Who’s to blame? Whom will you choose in November to make it better? Over 3,041 miles and 11 states, in 15 buses piloted by 17 drivers, we listened to our fellow passengers discuss the country passing by the bus window. We traversed fault lines: the Ramapo in the Northeast, the Wasatch in Utah and the San Andreas in California. The most pronounced fault line was intangible: between those participating in democracy and those who wouldn’t.+ radio interview on KPCC’s Take Two

Flea Market Abortions Thrive as Texas Seeks to Shutter Clinics, July 11, 2013+ radio interviewon KPCCAt an open-air flea market outside McAllen, Texas, near the Mexican border, shoppers can buy a goat and get their car windows tinted. Tables with handwritten signs touting Viagra are stocked with herbal remedies promising to burn fat and boost breast size. You can also find pills to end a pregnancy. Bazaars like this have become home to a black market where women too poor to afford an abortion at a clinic or deterred by state mandates such as a 24-hour waiting period can buy drugs to induce a miscarriage on their own.

BUSINESSWEEK: Regulating Away Abortion: How State Governments Are Running Providers Out of Business, Jan. 21, 2013Intimidation, harassment, and the threat of violence used to be the biggest preoccupations for U.S. abortion providers. In recent years, however, the main threats have come not from noisy picketers and protests but from regulations passed in statehouses across the country. Instead of seeking to ban abortion outright, which would violate the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion groups are pushing laws that would make it too expensive or logistically impossible for providers to remain in operation.

BUSINESSWEEK: Poor Forever? Connecticut’s Ribbon of Hardship, July 9, 2012+ television interview on CNN+ television interview on Bloomberg TV+ television interview on Canada TVA growing body of research now suggests that the widening wealth gap between rich and poor may be hindering our ability to fight poverty. A new finding nicknamed the Great Gatsby Curve makes the strongest case yet that inequality and mobility are intertwined—the more unequal a society is, the greater the likelihood that children will remain in the same economic standing as their parents. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project, Americans believe more ardently than their global counterparts that “people are rewarded for intelligence and skill.” And yet, it may be as simple as this: More inequality means less opportunity.